From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2011-02-08T22:39:25+09:00
Subject: Re: "permission denied" happening too often

Anurag Priyam wrote in post #980286:
>> I've got Ruby scripts that have been working fine for years now. But,
>> every now and then, one of my scripts errors out with a "permission
>> denied" error. This is very frustrating. Usually, it involves moving a
>> file to either a sister directory or a subdirectory. And, like I said,
>> 99% of the time it works fine. Has anyone else experienced this? It kind
>> of scares me because it's only been happening for me with Ruby. It
>> didn't use to happen with Perl, and, believe, I don't want to go back to
>> Perl.
>
> Can you post your code? Not sure, but trying to move '.' or '..' on a
> Unix system might cause this problem. Also, did you verify that you
> have right permissions on the files, and directories?

Yes, I know I have the rights. It's on a Windows server. And, I'm doing 
a "FileUtils.mv" command. And, like I said, it works 99% of the time.
Cheers.

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